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Except that nerd could have actually done something useful for society
Sports and other forms of physical activity are beneficial to society, which is why socialist states have always invested so many resources in them. Furthermore, all this nonsense about physical and mental activity supposedly being enemies and mutually exclusive, so that you are forced to choose only one of the two, is capitalist propaganda that should be eradicated from people's minds.
Mass sport is beneficial, but professional sport is not.
Nonsense. In a socialist society, there are both professional and mass sports, and they dialectically reinforce each other. Just look at the historical examples of the COMECON countries and Yugoslavia. Most of the problems and abuses in modern professional sports are caused by capitalism.
And professional sport in socialist countries was cringe too, with the same problems as in capitalist countries, even if less pronounced.
Why do you think so? Have you investigated this issue thoroughly?
sportsball is good cause I can crack open a cold one with the boys and watch something in the evening.
Yeah, as long as the sport isn’t inherently destructive to the athlete, like US football, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with pro sports leagues.
People like having teams and watching sports. That’s a service to society.
professional anything is not beneficial
Would you like to elaborate?
having a healthy and active populace yes, another 20th best quarterback, no.